Elementary Differential Equations I /
Ordinary Differential Equations
UBC MATH 215/255, Section 102, September-December 2014
- Problem sets and Exams
- Lecture summary
- Previous announcements
- Most recent announcements:
- 11.28
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final exam: Mon Dec. 15th at 3:30 pm, Student Recreation
Centre Room 200A. (Three rooms SRC A-B-C will be shared by 5 sections.)
- Math Club Exam Pack: old exams with solutions at $10, available in Math Club in Math Annex 1119,
1pm-5pm, until Friday Dec 5, except Wed Dec 3.
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Office hour during the exam weeks: 11am on Thu Dec 4, Thu Dec 11 and Fri Dec 12.
References:
- Textbook: Notes on
Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers, by Jiri Lebl, (online
and free, there is a link to affordable paperback), and a new draft of Chapter 8 on
nonlinear systems
- supplementary text:
Differential
Equations and Their Applications, 4th Ed., by Martin Braun
(accessible from inside UBC or via VPN). We will follow Braun's section 1.9
for the topic on exact equations.
- supplementary text:
A First Course in Differential Equations, 2nd Ed.,
by J. David Logan
(accessible from inside UBC or via VPN)
- optional:
Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems,
by W. E. Boyce and R. C. DiPrima,
(a nice classical book, ANY version is fine)
Lecture Time & Location: Mon Wed Fri 9:00am, LSK 200.
Instructor: Dr. Tai-Peng Tsai, Math building
room 109, phone 604-822-2591, ttsai at math.ubc.ca.
Office hours: Mon 4-5:15pm, Tue 11am-12:15pm, and by appointment
(Tsai's schedule).
Other sections:
101
(Henriot),
103 (Shih),
104
(Dontsev), and
105 (Zhao)
Notes:
Resources:
Calendar description:
MATH 215: First-order equations; linear equations; linear systems; Laplace
transforms; numerical methods; trajectory analysis of plane nonlinear
systems. Applications of these topics will be emphasized.
MATH 255: Review of linear systems; nonlinear equations and applications;
phase
plane analysis; Laplace transforms; numerical methods.
Prerequisite: One of MATH 101, MATH 103, MATH 105, MATH 121, SCIE 001 and
one of MATH 152, MATH 221, MATH 223.
Corequisite: One of MATH 200, MATH 217, MATH 226, MATH 253, MATH 263.
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homepage or UBC Math.